Cork International Film Festival 'is constantly innovating' says director Fiona Clark

Ee mark 69 years of the Cork International Film Festival. As organisers look to a milestone anniversary next year, Noel Baker meets director Fiona Clark

Cork Film Festival director Fiona Clarke in Cork Opera House. Picture: Chani Anderson

You know, it might work if you try it in a Cork accent. Give it a go. “Here’s looking at you, kid!”

The Cork International Film Festival (CIFF) is already gearing up for its 70th birthday in 2025, an ever-lengthening thread in Irish cultural life, or to use an old Orson Welles line, a ribbon of dreams. Already, festival director Fiona Clark is gearing up for the celebrations, and as ever, with an eye to the future while commemorating the past.